BioProject

Marine prokaryoplankton represent a complex, global microbiome that plays key roles in biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystem functioning. More...

Marine prokaryoplankton represent a complex, global microbiome that plays key roles in biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystem functioning. Yet their genomic composition remains poorly resolved. We employed randomized single cell genomics to recover 12,715 partial genomes from tropical and subtropical, photic ocean. Each sequenced cell was found to be genomically unique, implying limited clonality within prokaryoplankton populations. This genome collection enables accurate functional annotation and genus-level taxonomic assignments, thus offering a model of a reference genome database for complex microbiomes. For more details: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867419312735?via%3Dihub and https://osf.io/pcwj9/ Less...